Not an issue for a small network, but becomes a pain when it grows. How can I track what ever happens to my network's hardware (repairs, upgrades, whatever) if I don't want to dig into loads of Excel and Access files?

Well it depends on what network hardware you have and what you mean by 'whatever happens', but if you want to know about warnings/failings/etc. then you could use a vendor-specific solution like CiscoWorks for their kit or a vendor-gnostic solution like Nagios or Cacti. If you're looking for physical asset management then some of these will help but ultimately you may need some form of spreadsheet/database depending on environment size.

Thanks for reply. Not talking about monitoring or managing system logs. Just want to simply track whatever happened to my hardware, like when they're added, upgraded, replaced and so on. A bit bookkeeping you know.
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ParsaApr 15 '10 at 14:26